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social policy, economic policy, and foreign policy, embracing each one of those. what we had was one wobbly leg. with $1 billion provided on the republican side. from the top of the ticket and affecting every other senate race in the country because of that influence. when fully engaged, each of those policy areas are mandated and created and there is a residence on the ground -- grass-roots level brings public policy leaders into office so those three areas can be implemented without fully engaging on aid to those areas and on social policy, we leave boats on the -- votes on the table every single time. we had a defect a truce on social issues on one side but the full embrace of the war on social issues on the other side. republicans had the truth, obama had launched a war over abortion. and on the life issue. and he got to define what that issue was and what is it? rape. abortion meant rape in the minds of many voters because the debate was not fully engaged. his weaknesses, his extreme positions on late term abortions, on sex selection abortion, not saving chil
social policy, economic policy, and foreign policy, embracing each one of those. what we had was one wobbly leg. with $1 billion provided on the republican side. from the top of the ticket and affecting every other senate race in the country because of that influence. when fully engaged, each of those policy areas are mandated and created and there is a residence on the ground -- grass-roots level brings public policy leaders into office so those three areas can be implemented without fully...
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to his foreign- policy -- i think what you alluded to is how foreign policy has become particularly important to them, particularly support of israel. those issues have real resonance among pro-is really evangelicals. >> -- israeli evangelicals. >> jonathan has been covering the sector for a long time. thank you, ralph, for your comments. he is the money and politics reporter for bloomberg and also the president of the national press club. what did you see yesterday? >> in 2010 we saw all of this secret money in races and republicans took control of the senate and house. everyone said it would be a foreshadowing of 2012. it was not. obama was able to raise as much money as mitt romney. romney had help from political action committees and outside groups, but the money was even. obama was not swamped. he was able to match spending dollar for dollar. the difference was obama raise the money himself. ralph, you know how important it is to get people energized. if you give $10 to campaign, you will probably give it again in a couple of months. you will probably make a phone call. you'll
to his foreign- policy -- i think what you alluded to is how foreign policy has become particularly important to them, particularly support of israel. those issues have real resonance among pro-is really evangelicals. >> -- israeli evangelicals. >> jonathan has been covering the sector for a long time. thank you, ralph, for your comments. he is the money and politics reporter for bloomberg and also the president of the national press club. what did you see yesterday? >> in...
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josh rogin, staff writer "foreign policy" magazine. writes "the cable." >>> still ahead, a lot of republicans get mad at mitt romney, now, today, and not just for losing last week. >>> we'll also have more from my interview with nancy pelosi when she weighs in on why all the republicans are so mad at mitt romney right now. >>> i said something on this show last night i would please like to take back. if you just think about the presidency, if women had voted the way men did this year, it would have president romney, but women did not vote that way at all. so honestly we're never going to hear from mitt romney again. the part there at the end about never hearing from mitt romney again, not true. and it turns out people do still care what mitt romney says when he says stuff. because unless and until the republican party can find a new national face for their party, mitt romney remains the national face and, therefore, the national leader of the republican party. even if the republicans don't want him to be. and it appears the republicans
josh rogin, staff writer "foreign policy" magazine. writes "the cable." >>> still ahead, a lot of republicans get mad at mitt romney, now, today, and not just for losing last week. >>> we'll also have more from my interview with nancy pelosi when she weighs in on why all the republicans are so mad at mitt romney right now. >>> i said something on this show last night i would please like to take back. if you just think about the presidency, if women...
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josh rogin, staff writer "foreign policy" magazine. writes "the cable." >>> still ahead, a lot of republicans get mad at mitt romney, now, today, and not just for losing last week. >>> we'll also have more from my interview with nancy pelosi when she weighs in on why all the republicans are so mad at mitt romney right now. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than t
josh rogin, staff writer "foreign policy" magazine. writes "the cable." >>> still ahead, a lot of republicans get mad at mitt romney, now, today, and not just for losing last week. >>> we'll also have more from my interview with nancy pelosi when she weighs in on why all the republicans are so mad at mitt romney right now. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and...
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josh rogin, staff writer "foreign policy" magazine. writes "the tabcable." >>> still ahead, a lot of republicans get mad at mitt romney, now, today, and not just for losing last week. >>> we'll also have more from my interview with nancy pelosi when she weighs in on why all the republicans are so mad at mitt romney right now. i have a cold... i took dayquil, but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't work on runny noses. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have an antihistamine. really? [ male announcer ] really. alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a fast acting antihistamine to relieve your runny nose. [ sighs ] thank you! [ male announcer ] you're welcome. that's the cold truth! [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus. ♪ oh what a relief it is! ♪ [ male announcer ] to learn more about the cold truth and save $1 visit alka-seltzer on facebook. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is karen and jeremiah. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, h
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what we do in foreign policy. if you got the reporters and had therapieses picked out by american media with a to the for europe or asia or broadcast network, that would show the american taxpayer what they are getting for the money. other things we didn't talk about. we talked about public diplomacy or nontraditional. the bush administration program. peace corp. huge public diplomacy. the question is how do we leverage those demonstrate department aspects of public diplomacy. when the department of defense and the mercy ship for tsunami release. you don't think that's public diplomacy? that's huge. i want to get back to china, i think it's important we continue to focus on everybody on that. we studied russia in my time. now they are studying chinese. in a they want to get 100,000 americans studying mandrin in china. it's important that government fund be use to send potential future american foreign policy leaders and thinkers and shapers overseas to experience walking in someone else's shoes. great program ther
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we know we will have four more years of obama administration foreign policy. do you see anywhere in the world where we are better off or where we are viewed as a stronger, more powerful nation than we were when barack obama first took office? >> absolutely to the contrary. the fact of the matter is, when america has very strong leadership, the world is a safer and a better place. when american leadership is indecisive or paralyzed by fear of consequence, which we have had a lot of, the world is a much more dangerous place. that's what you get from our allies in the region, particularly in those areas where our values and our national interests are being contested as they are in the middle-east. they all fundamentally believe the united states policy is to pull away from them and to disengage. they are terrified by the prospects of an advancing iran, and an advancing al qaeda and affiliated groups with a weakened united states, as a player. >> when you look at the issue of nuclear proliferation, as well, ambassador, iran is a concern. but you look across the re
we know we will have four more years of obama administration foreign policy. do you see anywhere in the world where we are better off or where we are viewed as a stronger, more powerful nation than we were when barack obama first took office? >> absolutely to the contrary. the fact of the matter is, when america has very strong leadership, the world is a safer and a better place. when american leadership is indecisive or paralyzed by fear of consequence, which we have had a lot of, the...
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open -- >> "the new york times" had an article calling the other fiscal cliff as foreign policy. the shake up on the foreign relations committees -- three of the chair and a ranking member being gone but if senator kerry would move positions it would be a complete clean slate on how often set aside and wondering how it affects the president's ability to build up the top line foreign policy issues, like syria and iran, but also others like foreign aid which has a nice rubber duckie on the catalog today. it helps pay our salaries. >> i think bob corker will be interesting as ranking member on foreign relations. he skipped the republican convention this summer to go to the middle east. and he has been doing a lot of traveling. he is super smart about these kinds of things. i think he will try to mold himself a little bit -- not completely, like dick lugar, honestly. he will be against the hawks i think on a number of occasions. we did a story recently about him and we had john mccain talk about how much -- how much he respected and although they did not always see eye to eye. but i
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all of the foreign policy and defense positions, huge turnover in these critical posts, some of the names being floated as permanent replacement are john brenen, undersecretary of defense, the director for national intelligence. for the cia, is it important to get this one picked and in place quickly? >> yeah, absolutely. you want to move on from this. the cia will function a very capable organization, but you need someone at the-ment leading the direction. he had to be traveling and doing all of these things. i think john brenen would be a good choice. he has been doing a lot of quiet diplomacy abroad especially in the middle east but right now you have the situation with hilary clinton may be leaving, leon pen d -- penetta. >> jennifer: do you think senate confirmation for any of these will be very difficult? don't you think that there is some recognition that these positions are going to [ inaudible ] confirmation. >> it's true and if colon powell and john kerry, i'm just throwing them out there -- it's two very capable people leading foreign policy, and they wouldn't have any trouble
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but i think we go back to foreign policy in the next year and i think we're going to be writing and thinking and worrying a lot about iran. chris: iran again. yeah. >> the head of the republican party is going to run again for re-election and he will win because despite the failings of the campaign, people are satisfied with him. chris: good for him. i was talking the other day, that's the next woodward biggy. >> he's already printing bumper stickers. >> rock stars get as big a kick out of flying on air force one as everybody else does. bruce springsteen getting out of the motorcade to get on the plane on monday and he looked like a kid in a candy store. chris: did you like the spelling problem with his name the other day? >> what is up with that? i'm so embarrassed. >> chris christie cried when he hugged bruce springsteen. so, the benghazi postmore tells are not over and they're especially not over at the c.i.a. which is looking around the world to see how it can protect its people better and not rely on what proved to be, in the case of benghazi, very shaky militias and irregular forces. c
but i think we go back to foreign policy in the next year and i think we're going to be writing and thinking and worrying a lot about iran. chris: iran again. yeah. >> the head of the republican party is going to run again for re-election and he will win because despite the failings of the campaign, people are satisfied with him. chris: good for him. i was talking the other day, that's the next woodward biggy. >> he's already printing bumper stickers. >> rock stars get as big...
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mark halpern. >> one of the hallmarks of president obama's foreign policy team, whatever you think of their record and success, is they've gotten along probably as well internally in terms of public disputes as any security team of the modern era. that's based between the secretary of state, both secretaries of defense, the vice president all key players. jim jones, the first national security adviser, was an outlier and didn't stay all that long. i think general petraeus has been seen as a bit of an outlier not playing about the no drama obama rules. it won't surprise anybody to see a change there in part because as the president remakes his foreign policy team, he'll go back to a premium saying i want everybody that will play nicely together and get along internally and externally. >> there are also questions about when the next term leon panetta would go back to california. others are expected to transition out. hillary clinton most notably. and then we talk about who will succeed hillary clinton. susan rice is a very strong defender. he we heard senator john kerry would be very in
mark halpern. >> one of the hallmarks of president obama's foreign policy team, whatever you think of their record and success, is they've gotten along probably as well internally in terms of public disputes as any security team of the modern era. that's based between the secretary of state, both secretaries of defense, the vice president all key players. jim jones, the first national security adviser, was an outlier and didn't stay all that long. i think general petraeus has been seen as...
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on foreign policy, a confident foreign policy that is on the side of freedom around the world. the other ingredient he brought is the values issues, and that's where we got millions of midwestern and southern evangelicals, catholics, et cetera, to leave the party of their birth, the party of their families and become republicans, and i think if those issues had been engaged -- not saying the campaign should have been run on them. >> well, when we're talking about the party -- when we're talking about america, so in a race of all people in art tick las vegas of the vision, peel don't want to be lectured to. they want to live their lives. they want an economy that works. they want jobs and opportunities, schools that educate the next generation, and then want to be left alone, and the sooner that we as a party can get around that and start preparing for the 21st century, which is really the discussion that we need to have, how you prepare for the most competitive years ahead in a highly competitive world. >> to be more libertarian. is that what you believe on social issues? >> ye
on foreign policy, a confident foreign policy that is on the side of freedom around the world. the other ingredient he brought is the values issues, and that's where we got millions of midwestern and southern evangelicals, catholics, et cetera, to leave the party of their birth, the party of their families and become republicans, and i think if those issues had been engaged -- not saying the campaign should have been run on them. >> well, when we're talking about the party -- when we're...
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about foreign policies. i agree with that. at the reporters had been taking seriously questions about what transpired due to those attacks and continue to. only as a political issue, the obama administration is probably less interested in talking about this than the republicans are. but in terms of the power and whether arrests inside washington or outside washington, i think there are demonstrations of this. when there is higher voter participation, it reminds politicians that people are watching and that there are consequences for their policies that they propose. and when the public polls back and is less engaged, the power concentrates much more on the heels of congress and in washington. host: pennsylvania, republican, go ahead. caller: thank you. i am a hungarian refugee. basically i came out of hungary in 1956 when the revolution was there. i was only 17 years old and i came out by myself, crossed over a mine field to get to america. over here, i was able to put myself through college. i have a good j
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>> my ideal republican party would be fiscally conservative on foreign policy and military policy and on social ish ooh issues would we would be libertarian and we would stay out of your pocketbook and bedroom and that party could be a majority party. >> people said -- >> sorry. go ahead. >> i think if we were running that way this time, we win by 4% or 5%. >> what about the tea party? the tea party decided it wanted pure candidates, your party lost some unlosable races, they may have control with them. a lot of republicans have trouble bringing this issue up. >> with the tea party we have to figure out what are your priority issues? the whole reason they got established, was big government, heavy taxes, obama care, government trying to direct your life and allow a certain amount of flexibility on social issues. conservatism on foreign policy and allow people to disagree with each other, sort of in the ronald reagan mold, if you agree with me on eight out of ten issues you are my friend. we have get around to thand kf party. and i have been saying this for ten years, otherwise, look a
>> my ideal republican party would be fiscally conservative on foreign policy and military policy and on social ish ooh issues would we would be libertarian and we would stay out of your pocketbook and bedroom and that party could be a majority party. >> people said -- >> sorry. go ahead. >> i think if we were running that way this time, we win by 4% or 5%. >> what about the tea party? the tea party decided it wanted pure candidates, your party lost some unlosable...
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fortunately for us ve a deep bench in the national security foreign policy arena. you will see the president making a smooth transition there. the big issue in the next 12 months and it does involve the c.i.a. we are coming to the moment of truth for iran nuclear program. we face a fork in the road. there are no attractive alternatives and consequences depend tong path w -- depend tong path we take. he will compromise on legislation because he has to. he will be more progressive on the regulatory front because he can. >> chris: all right. >> on the petraeus thing, everyone says it's tragic. that is a given. but i think we have real questions here. we had the head of our intelligence in the entire country sending personal e-mails, after he was named c.i.a., to apparently the gal paula, after ron kesselr report is she broke off the relationship and sending scores of e-mails. some report says thousands of e-mails from the personal account. and for eric holder, if he was the one who knew about this and he had to, to have not brought this to the attention of the preside
fortunately for us ve a deep bench in the national security foreign policy arena. you will see the president making a smooth transition there. the big issue in the next 12 months and it does involve the c.i.a. we are coming to the moment of truth for iran nuclear program. we face a fork in the road. there are no attractive alternatives and consequences depend tong path w -- depend tong path we take. he will compromise on legislation because he has to. he will be more progressive on the...
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on foreign policy, a confident foreign policy that is on the side of freedom around the world. but the other ingredient he brought were the values issues, and that's where we got millions of midwestern and southern evangelicals, catholics, et cetera, to leave the party of their birth, the party of their families and become republicans, and i think if those issues had been engaged -- i'm not saying the campaign should have been run on them. the economy was obviously the major issue. but you can't take a crouching position if you're a member of a party that believes that all of our children should be welcomed into the world, for example, and protected by the law. >> governor, do you agree with that? >> well, i'd have to say that the republican party needs to decide whether it wants to win or lose going forward. >> and what do you think that would allow you to do? >> well, when we're talking about the party, we're losing. when we're talking about america, we win. so in embrace of all people, in articulation of a vision, people don't want to be moralized to, they don't want to be l
on foreign policy, a confident foreign policy that is on the side of freedom around the world. but the other ingredient he brought were the values issues, and that's where we got millions of midwestern and southern evangelicals, catholics, et cetera, to leave the party of their birth, the party of their families and become republicans, and i think if those issues had been engaged -- i'm not saying the campaign should have been run on them. the economy was obviously the major issue. but you...
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at the same time, with obama having won, you have a more flexible foreign policy. >> uh-huh. >> so the prognosis so far looks positive because you have these two leadership groups who more or less are willing to accommodate, negotiate, and so forth and so on. but the problem in asia, of course, is that you have some very stubborn views. in the countries, japan, korea, vietnam, philippines, they're all disputing these islands, and it can get out of control. >> tom: mark, how long have you been investing in china or looking at china for capital? >> it has been over 30 years. >> tom: how would you describe today's opportunity over the course of that generation of vistain investing time? >> it is incredible. ever day you see opportunities in china. the demand for services, for products, you name it. they hunger for all of these things, and they will increase. it will not decrease, because of the wages going up. >> tom: we will have more of our conversation with mark mobius next week on thanksgiving night. he tells us globalization has made the u.s. fiscal cliff a worldwide issue for invest
at the same time, with obama having won, you have a more flexible foreign policy. >> uh-huh. >> so the prognosis so far looks positive because you have these two leadership groups who more or less are willing to accommodate, negotiate, and so forth and so on. but the problem in asia, of course, is that you have some very stubborn views. in the countries, japan, korea, vietnam, philippines, they're all disputing these islands, and it can get out of control. >> tom: mark, how...
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this is the second time she has been accused of involvement in foreign policy. author richard minator if book "leading from behind" accused him of guiding obama. but they are accusing them of foreign maneuvering. with comments to dmitry medvedev that he would have more flexibility on the european missile defense after the election. administration is denying report of post election u.s. talks and said the talks with the-up security council won't resume until iran satisfied the inspection demand of the international atomic energy agency. bret? >> bret: wendell goler at the state department. thank you. the retweeted image in history. we will show it to you next. with president obama re-election workers at one company never had a prayer until the last one. grapevine is next. hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. now get a
this is the second time she has been accused of involvement in foreign policy. author richard minator if book "leading from behind" accused him of guiding obama. but they are accusing them of foreign maneuvering. with comments to dmitry medvedev that he would have more flexibility on the european missile defense after the election. administration is denying report of post election u.s. talks and said the talks with the-up security council won't resume until iran satisfied the...
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>> my ideal republican party would be fiscally conservative on foreign policy and military policy. and on social issues, we would be libertarian. we would say we're going to stay out of your pocketbook and stay out of your bedroom. i think that party could be a majority party. >> people said -- sorry. go ahead. >> i think if we were running that way this time, we win by 4% or 5%. >> what about the tea party? there are people who say the tea party wanted pure candidates, i put that in quotes. your party lost some unlosable races, they may have cost republicans control of the senate. some say republicans can't win with the tea party but they can't win without them. a lot of republicans have trouble bringing this issue up. >> i think what we really should try to do with the tea party, get them to figure out what are your priority issues? the whole reason they got established, was big government, heavy taxes, obama care, government trying to direct your life and allow a certain amount of flexibility on social issues. if we could organize around fiscal conservatism, conservatism on fore
>> my ideal republican party would be fiscally conservative on foreign policy and military policy. and on social issues, we would be libertarian. we would say we're going to stay out of your pocketbook and stay out of your bedroom. i think that party could be a majority party. >> people said -- sorry. go ahead. >> i think if we were running that way this time, we win by 4% or 5%. >> what about the tea party? there are people who say the tea party wanted pure candidates,...
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about foreign policies. i agree with that. at the reporters had been taking seriously questions about what transpired due to those attacks and continue to. only as a political issue, the obama administration is probably less interested in talking about this than the republicans are. but in terms of the power and whether arrests inside washington or outside washington, i think there are demonstrations of this. when there is higher voter participation, it reminds politicians that people are watching and that there are consequences for their policies that they propose. and when the public polls back and is less and gage, the power concentrates much more on the heels of congress and in washington. host: pennsylvania, republican, go ahead. caller: thank you. i am a hungarian refugee. basically i came out of hungary in 1956 when the revolution was there. i was only 17 years old and i came out by myself, crossed over a mine field to get to america. over here, i was able to put myself through college. i have a good
about foreign policies. i agree with that. at the reporters had been taking seriously questions about what transpired due to those attacks and continue to. only as a political issue, the obama administration is probably less interested in talking about this than the republicans are. but in terms of the power and whether arrests inside washington or outside washington, i think there are demonstrations of this. when there is higher voter participation, it reminds politicians that people are...
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. >>> pakistan remains one of the biggest foreign policy headaches for re-elected president obama. his second term will oversee the withdrawal of u.s. combat troops from afghanistan, scheduled to be complete by the end of 2014. nhk world's hideki yui outlines the challenges those two countries pose for obama's next term. >> reporter: afghanistan and pakistan are two nations affected by the u.s. fight against terrorism. both expect the obama administration to shift its focus during a second term to rebuilding the economy back home. at the height of the u.s. deployment, about 100,000 american troops were stationed in afghanistan. the number has fallen to less than 70,000, and further reductions are planned. many in afghanistan welcome that trend, but others voice concern that it could throw the unstable country back into civil war. dialogue between the united states and the taliban was suspended earlier this year. during the election campaign, obama distanced himself from the issue to avoid being branded weak on terrorism. with the election behind him, the president may become more f
. >>> pakistan remains one of the biggest foreign policy headaches for re-elected president obama. his second term will oversee the withdrawal of u.s. combat troops from afghanistan, scheduled to be complete by the end of 2014. nhk world's hideki yui outlines the challenges those two countries pose for obama's next term. >> reporter: afghanistan and pakistan are two nations affected by the u.s. fight against terrorism. both expect the obama administration to shift its focus...
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to what extent does this represent an increase in militarization of foreign policy? >> this is a very big question. question on is the drone approach in yemen and more broadly elsewhere, a reflection of a broader shift of foreign policy that shows a greater marltization? -- militarization. >> i think you're definitely on to something. there are things i can point to. using drone strikes, using air strikes is a way that the u.s. can effectively combat its enemies without putting american forces at risk and without sort of suffering the casualties that we've seen in iraq and afghanistan. and while i think that may be true long term i had great concerns about the potential blowback from those actions and what the casualty account will be. that is a difficult argument to make. we're still at the point where we haven't seen all of the repercussions that are taking place from these attacks. but i do think there will be unfortunately i think there will be repercussions. the other thing i would note is that i think obviously given the situation in libya and benghazi, there a
to what extent does this represent an increase in militarization of foreign policy? >> this is a very big question. question on is the drone approach in yemen and more broadly elsewhere, a reflection of a broader shift of foreign policy that shows a greater marltization? -- militarization. >> i think you're definitely on to something. there are things i can point to. using drone strikes, using air strikes is a way that the u.s. can effectively combat its enemies without putting...